brrrt brrrtbrrrt brrrtbrrrt brrrtclick"Hello. This is Maclir's refrigerator speaking. I am not a proper answering machine, but if you speak really slowly, I will write your message down and stick it to myself with one of those cute little magnets. I have the pen in my hand now . . ."
Beeeeeeep.

"Hi. This is McD's microwave - his answering machine ran off
with the 'fridge this morning. Um, if you want to leave a message,
wait for the beep. Oh, and hey, if you need anything heated up, just
hold it up to the earpiece."

When putting a smiley right before a closing parenthesis, do you:

Use two parentheses: (Like this: :) )
Use one parenthesis: (Like this: :)
Reverse direction of the smiley: (Like this: (: )
Use angle/square brackets instead of parentheses
Use C-style commenting to set the smiley off from the closing parenthesis
Make the smiley a dunce: (:>
I disapprove of emoticons
Other